I might have invested in framework but I only find out all the cool stuff that
they're up to like a couple days before you guys the good news is this time
around I am absolutely jazzed against an
army of Industry Giants I'm seemingly Against All Odds they not only continue
to survive but in front of me is their biggest launch announcement yet I'm
talking seventh gen framework 13 their fastest 13-in laptop yet an allnew 12-in
convertible laptop with finally a touchcreen finally and wait a
desktop did we really need framework to develop modular repairable
desktops oh wait hold on a second this is new modular swappable front IO and
look at this you can even swap these
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description normally for a multi-product video we go from most exciting to less
exciting and then save a pretty good one for the the end but I'm equally stoked
for everything here so game of
chance hey nice one of my biggest
disappointments at CES was AMD's stricks
Halo processor not the chip itself of course I mean that could be the coolest
thing that I've seen out of AMD in years and maybe even the coolest PC CPU on the
market right now this thing has a massive integrated GP that boasts
performance that is similar to an RTX 4060 on integrated graphics and it even
allows you to allocate up to 96 GB of
its maximum 128 gigs of lpddr 5x to that
GPU making it awesome for gamers creative professionals and AI developers
no the disappointing thing was that this sick processor barely made it into any
products all I saw at the show was one
admittedly awesome laptop from HP and
One gaming tablet from Asus talking to
those Brands they said the issue was that stricks Halo requires a complete
motherboard and device redesign making its implementation in mobile devices
really costly so I guess framework said
screw it we're a small company and can't afford all that but what if we just made
it into a desktop is that really how it went down that is literally how it went
down oh well this 4 and 1/2 l least is
unmistakably framework it's got modular front I/O and a customizable front panel
and the base model that I'm holding here will come with just black tiles and no
handle but if you want you can get logos for games and generally nerdy things and
stick them onto the front and if they don't have the exact thing you're
looking for they are also releasing the 3D print files so you can make whatever
you want and Alex has some cool stuff for us to show off I want to see what
you got
nice what else we got who needs ventilation anyway Lego ones no way we
could put Lego on the front of our computer yep oh no way this one I don't
think will work uh that is phallic not
as phallic as if I put it here oh no I broke it shoot my wife will be so
disappointed and the coolest one no this
is our upcoming LT store upcycled CPU fidget spinner h of course most people
aren't buying a desktop PC for the look so why don't we go around to the
business end at the back we've got a total of four display outputs and 5 GB
Ethernet meaning that this could conceivably be used for 4K video editing
off of a network storage device and on the top of the launch boox you've got
the option for a handle that also functions as the Fastener to open the
entire thing up how the devil what is happening right
that's pretty cool first the top panel slides back then both of the side panels
just slide up and off they come now
you'll notice that on the back panel here they had to sputter metal for
electromagnetic radiation compliance reasons but on the front they were able
to get away with a plastic panel and still pass Emi surprising not just me
but apparently framework themselves now that we've got it open we can see that
while they are using what isch technically a mobile processor they're
using a standard-sized mini ITX motherboard including a buy4 PCI E slot
meaning that when you were done with this as your primary desktop system you
could pop this motherboard out and put it anywhere you want including
installing PCI expansion cards over the
processor they're using a heat sink that was made in collaboration with Cooler
Master and you have the option of a fan either from Cooler Master or noctua
which by the way guys has barely been spinning this entire time here thanks in
part to the Honeywell phase change thermal interface material now one thing
I was slightly concerned about with this system was the CPU die because it's a
mobile processor it's designed to have the cooler directly on the exposed die
itself without an integrated heat spreader this can run the risk of
potentially cracking the die in shipping and in the event that the user removes
the cooler and reinstalls it inexpertly
but fortunately AMD thought of this and includes the shim so hopefully it should
be pretty low risk we've got a couple more fun little
cooling Innovations down here at the bottom is a little tiny fresh air intake
for the power supply so it doesn't have to share its Air Supply with the rest of
the PC and then at the top of the machine there's a handy little cutout
that makes accessing both the CPU fan header and the RGB header a bit easier
at least for those with bigger fies the other things that are super easy to
access are boom your Wi-Fi module and
your PCIe Gen 4 m.2 SSD storage along
with a second m.2 slot that's around here at the front now one thing that
unfortunately cannot be upgraded after purchase is system memory so make sure
you get enough from the get-go I hope that this is something that can be
improved in the future but it would require permission from AMD the good
news is the desktop can be outfitted with up to 128 gigs of lpddr 5x and
framework expects that a lot of users are going to be buying that top config
to run AI models for power we've got a semi-custom unit from fsp that's a
little bit deceptive while it says 400
WTS on the label they actually selected a power supply that was designed to do
600 watts then they downrated it to make sure that it runs very quietly and
efficiently man this thing looks cool I am psyched these are usb4 obviously
right those too sick before we move on to the next product can you explain why
this doesn't have replaceable LP cam modules already and where you got that
amazing embroidered Hood I do love this I wear it all the time so we did
actually ask AMD about this the first time they told us about strick was
actually literally our first question how do we get modu or memory we are framework after all and they didn't say
no actually they did assign one of their technical Architects like really really
go deep on this they ran simulations they ran studies they just determine
that it's not possible with st Halo to do LP cam the signal Integrity doesn't
work out because of how that memory is Fanning out over the 256 bit bus oh well
that's bad news but hey your hoodie looks great coming soon LTT Store.com
look it's a framework circuit
board that is a bummer but the good news is that framework has committed to not
nickel and dime people on the RAM upgrades absolutely it sounds like I'm
saying absolutely I'm going to nickel and dime people when you frame it that way but you won't I won't I promise I
love the look of this thing but MAV I have a bit of a problem if you could if
I could borrow you for a second here when I invested in you guys and you know
all the inconvenience of the disclosures and everything I don't cover laptops
that much and I wasn't that worried about it you guys make a desktop
now yeah do you not see the inconvenience for me of you guys having
what is an incredible product but one that conflicts with literally everything
I cover yeah it just means there's going to be 10 seconds of every video you ever
do again talking about us that sounds that sounds really great oh my God
next up is something that I've been pleading for since the beginning from
framework a touchscreen option I just
wasn't expecting there to be a whole new device attached to it meet the framework
12 a convertible 12.2 in laptop with repairability of course and maybe more
importantly for you folks who haven't been able to pull the trigger on a 13 or
a 16 price at the very center of its
design philosophy possibly my favorite feature here has got to be the colors
they have five in total that all look fantastic and although the materials are
plastic they have done it in an unapologetically durable way with TPU
bumpers to absorb shocks and a metal internal structure to make sure that it
isn't too floppy up top we get a 1200p
touchscreen with 400 nits Peak brightness that is a lot better than
what I would normally expect from like an affordable screen even though uh the
bezels are a little on the bigger side yeah I'm getting the knot and it gets
even better if touching isn't your thing the 12 is also available with a color
matched stylus and comes with a color match screwdriver speaking of now's as
good a time as any to take it apart isn't it I'm going to use my screwdriver
though if it's all the same to you it's okay I'll show yours wait do you guys
even have the color matched one we have them in Taiwan oh I'll get mine do you
want to powered off first fine oh is that the only sample that
exists in that's the only ID complete one oh okay that explains why you want
me to not break it I mean you could just put another motherboard in it's super repairable all captive screws love to
see it and you guys have the new locking position locks oh my God
this one really doesn't want to come out does it you can lock them in oh no it's not locked in oh child wait how did I
how did you remove that so easily inside once we get in there shut up Child
Safety Lock oh red is for
unlock okay who else on the entire Earth uses red for unlocked cars oh they
do oh they've got little finger tabbies and this is a big Improvement
gone is the ribbon cable that connects the keyboard to the motherboard here is
a pogo pin interface they're more expensive but boy are they ever more
user friendly what else we got in here the modular IO that we've come to know
and love but this time with a little party trick the expansion cards can be
locked in place so that if these laptops get deployed in a school for instance
the teachers don't have to worry about little Timmy hucking USBC ports at
Little Sally across the room here's a nice little touch this little magnet
right here that holds the keyboard down so the Pogo pin stay nicely attached it
doubles as a holder for your RAM Shield when you're working on it how cool is
that now you might have noticed that there's just one RAM Shield over a
single RAM slot meaning that this laptop does run in single Channel mode which is
is kind of a shame but not a shame is
the little toolless SSD holder right here making upgrades just that little
bit easier now for the processor in this thing we don't get anything wild it's
either an Intel core I3 1215 U or a 1334
U which are neither the fastest nor the most efficient processors but what they
are is decent enough and affordable not
to mention way better than the cerons that you find in real low-end Windows
machines down at the bottom we get a 50w battery which hopefully will last a good
long while uh but we won't have actual numbers until we get a production sample
later this year and we also don't have exact pricing yet but it will definitely
start for under $1,000 finally while framework has only
been around for 5 years they have been very busy and we are now on the seventh
iteration of their original framework 13
that oh no has finally caved to Pure
pressure and given the people what they've so desperately wanted a
touchcreen no not yet a co-pilot button framework
was so excited to show us their new keyboards with the co-pilot button that
they forgot to bring a sample of it so
here's some b-roll thankfully the co-pilot key is just one of the options
and they now also offer a keyboard with no Windows logos at all for the Linux
users out there and more importantly they've redone the structure of the keys
moving from metal to plastic for the larger keys this was done not to cheap
out but because at certain frequencies the metal would start buzzing and
vibrating and the plastic helps make the speaker sound a bit better go figure the
biggest change of course though is the performance for the first time we're
getting a ryzen 9 CPU specifically the
ryzen 9 AI HX 370 with 12 cores and up
to 5.1 GHz boost clock to keep this
monster cool they've moved from two small heat pipes to a single large one
also aided by a swap to phase change thermal interface material oh the bezels
also get a small update is that right to
make sure that everything oh cute to make sure that everything is adequately
fancy this is actually n's personal laptop so we could find out all kinds of
things about framework future plans if I was able to incapacitate him and steal
his fingerprint which I can't one more bonus thing is uh ah yes this framework
16 looks normal enough until you notice anything weird about the
keyboard This proof of concept here is an ortholinear keyboard layout that was
designed to show off their new custom laptop key switches these would allow
their users to create any layout that they'd like allowing them to make
whatever good or bad decisions that they can imagine why are you guys so cool I
have some questions if you will is this fully compatible with my original
framework chassis like with the new thermal requirements it is yeah you can
drop it in all the way back to the original framework laptop 13 wow I don't
have mine anymore I sold it in an auction it's kind of a thing I do from
time to time I want to talk to you for the first time about our secret shopper
video which he never emailed me about and we haven't spoken about I'm not sure
what this is wait you didn't notice are
you kidding right now I do remember I do remember actually
did you forget now I remember tend to blank out the uh the the negative parts
of my life so you consider it a negative no no
it was it was good actually I will say we instituted a deeper secret shopper
policy within our leadership team following on that video really okay cuz
honestly I thought you guys came away looking pretty okay not perfect so what
do you guys do now I and honestly I thought that was a really fair video
that you did you called out stuff that was legitimately things that we can improve on so we've been digging into
that as a leadership team we've built our own secret Chopper process that we
run regularly now and just across the board through our basically post
purchase experience we're trying to revamp things that's very cool but you
didn't want to send me an email about it or anything thought I thought in the
intance of of neutrality it would be better if I didn't this is actually
hilarious this is legitimately the first time that we have exchanged any words
written or verbal about that project that's true and this is the first time
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